Chughead pairing story
The next morning Jughead is the first one to wake up and feels an unusual weight around him, opening his eyes he sees the peacefully sleeping face of Cheryl, who is using his chest as a pillow with one of her arms draped across his torso.
'What is Cheryl doing on the futon didn't she go to sleep on the bed? Either way if her parents see this my head will be the next decor hung over the fireplace.' Jughead thinks, freaking out but lying completely still before he decides to try and get out from under Cheryl's arm and succeeds only for her to shift ending up with her head on his legs.
"Well I guess this is better than the previous situation." Jughead murmurs quietly and slowly readjusts his legs into a more comfortable position with Cheryl's head resting on his right leg while his left one is propped up to keep him steady as he's leaning back against the foot of Cheryl's bed.
About 20 minutes later both Veronica and Cheryl start to wake up and Veronica looks around wondering where Cheryl is, seeing Jughead's black hair from the foot of the bed.
"Hi, where is Cheryl?" Veronica whispers to Jughead who glances back at her before nodding to the floor next to him. The curious Veronica crawls across the bed so she can peek over the foot of it and sees Cheryl sleeping in the futon with her head resting on Jugheads leg.
"Did you guys sleep like this?" Veronica asks with a smirk playing on her lips.
"When we went to sleep, she actually was lying next to you, I don't know how she ended up in the futon." Jughead tells her quietly. At that moment Cheryl starts to wake up and groggily blinks her eyes while getting into a sitting position.
"Hmm? Why am I not in my bed?" Cheryl asks confused, looking at the other teens in her room.
"How would I know, I was asleep when you crawled into the futon with me." Jughead replies.
"Oh right. I had some bad dreams and tried getting some sleep down here. Looks like it worked." Cheryl says remembering what happened last night.
"Yeah well, good morning I guess." Jughead tells them only to get thrown out of the room so they can change. Once Jughead is outside Veronica tries to interrogate Cheryl.
"Sooo, you and Jughead huh?" She says knowingly.
"What? No. I don't know why I was able to sleep with him in peace." Cheryl tells her frantically.
"Ah-huh, looks like I found the real reason you wanted him to come, you wanted your snuggle buddy huh?" Veronica teases her.
"Shut up, maybe your just so distrustful that anyone is better company." Cheryl shoots back.
"Hah as if, don't worry I'll keep your love a secret, for now that is." Veronica says.
"Hmpf." Cheryl snorts and storms out the door once she closed her robe and put on some slippers to head into the bathroom across the hall.
"Did I miss something?" Jughead asks confused sticking his head warily through the door, not sure if Veronica had changed yet but is relieved to see that she's already wearing her black dress from yesterday.
"No, no. Just a little girl-talk." Veronica replies innocently.
"Whatever." Jughead sighs and fishes up his jacket and shirt, putting them back on and straightening them out before he finishes his look with his trademark hat.
"So, do you think there'll be breakfast before the memorial?" Jughead asks Veronica.
"Probably not, the memorial is supposed to start in like an hour, right?" Veronica replies, looking at her phone to check the time.
"Right." Jughead says disappointed.
Over the next hour Jughead spend most of the time in front of Cheryl's room while she is getting changed alongside Veronica.
"You ready?" Veronica asks the redhead while they are in front of a mirror.
"Just about, you go ahead I'll be right down." Cheryl tells her and Veronica leaves to join the guests who have started to show up.
"You OK Cheryl?" Jughead asks walking into the room, looking at the redhead who's looking into the mirror in a black dress thinking that something doesn't feel right.
"I don't know, something just doesn't feel right. It feels like this is supposed to be different somehow." Cheryl answers.
"Well if there is anything, I can help you with…" Jughead offers.
"No thank you, I think I'd like a few moments to myself, why don't you check if Betty is here and you can have a look around Jason's room, it's the one to our right." Cheryl tells him.
"Alright. See you in a bit." Jughead agrees and leaves to find Betty. Once he found her he leads her upstairs over to Jason's room and the two start to look around until they hear Nana Rose saying "Hello?" from behind the door.
After a jolt, surprised to see the old lady in there at least Jughead calms down and walks over to her.
"Hi there Nana Rose, we were just looking around to see if we can find something to help the police catch whoever hurt Jason." Jughead tells her gently.
"I see, oh and it's you. How lovely to see you again Polly. Come closer Polly dear I want to get a good look at you." Nana Rose says looking over at Betty.
"Nana Rose that's Polly's sister Betty." Jughead tells the old lady.
"Oh no wonder you're not wearing it then." Nana Rose says holding Betty's hand.
"Wearing what?" Betty asks.
"The ring I gave Polly. That ring has been in the Blossom family for generations." Nana Rose explains.
"You gave Polly a ring." Betty asks.
"Yes, I told her to hold it close to her heart and not tell Penelope about it or she might try to snip it off her finger." Nana Rose tells her.
"It's really such a shame Polly's wedding was the last thing I was living for, at least until you showed your face around here." Nana Rose tells them, looking at Jughead.
"Me? What did I do?" Jughead asks surprised.
"Nothing yet but I can tell the future you know, and I know you'll make Cheryl very happy." Nana Rose says.
"You and Cheryl?" Betty asks Jughead shocked.
"that's the first time I'm hearing of it as well." Jughead says surprised. Unknown by them Cheryl was listening from in front of the room, now dressed in the white dress she wore the day she rowed Jason across the river.
'Jughead? Nana Rose must be joking, or her gypsy powers are coming to an end.' Cheryl says to herself.
"Well I think we should head down now, right?" Jughead says awkwardly and gets behind Nana Rose to push her.
Hearing the three approach the door Cheryl quickly rushes over to her room, closing the door behind her quietly.
Once the three are downstairs they sit down with the rest of the guests and meet up with Archie and Kevin.
Once Archie sees Mrs. Blossom he gets up and goes over to her, handing her the jersey of her late son saying, "I'm so sorry Mrs. Blossom, I thought you might want to have this."
"You're so much like him. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you, Archibald." Mrs. Blossom says brushing over his hair, confusing him for her son before accepting the jersey.
Once Archie and almost everyone else sat down Betty sees Clifford having an argument with her father just before Cheryl makes her entrance, getting everyone's attention due to the fact that she's now wearing the white dress at the memorial.
Goal oriented Cheryl struts right up to the podium saying "Welcome to Thornhill, thank you all for coming. If you'd kindly take your seats, I'd like to start the memorial with a few words about Jason." Ignoring her almost fuming mother who's ready to storm the stage only for her husband to hold her back and Veronica to whisper "You're only going to make things worse."
"The last time I saw Jason I was wearing this dress. I know it's impossible, but I swear when I put it on it feels like he's in the room with me. Even though we were twins I always used to demand to have my own birthday party until one year out of the blue Jason convinced me we have to combine them into one. It was only two years later I found out why. Because no one wanted to come to mine and Jason didn't want me to know. He protected me every single day. I wish that day at the river I had protected him." Cheryl says now close to tears before she breaks down crying, going to her brothers coffin saying "I'm so sorry JJ, we failed you. All of us."
Veronica silently gets up and embraces the redhead as she cries her eyes out.
"I think we'll adjourn now to the winter salon for light supper." Penelope says getting on stage while Cheryl takes a seat still in tears.
As everyone follows Clifford to the winter salon Jughead wants to go over to Cheryl to comfort her but before he gets the chance Penelope drags her daughter out of the room and upstairs into Cheryl's bedroom, roughly throwing Cheryl on her bed while Cheryl protests "I had to it's what Jason would have wanted."
"No Cheryl as always it's what you wanted. I hope you enjoyed yourself, because after tonight there'll be no more river vixens and if not for the fact that no one would have you I'd be shipping you of to a boarding school in Europe tonight. Penelope scolds her furious at her daughter, who looks at her mother fearfully and still in tears.
After Penelope left the room Jughead who followed them and heard what happened knocks on the door before going over to Cheryl who is sitting at the edge of her bed crying.
"Hey." Jughead says sitting down next to her, putting his arm around Cheryl who immediately hugs him and starts to cry into Jugheads neck.
"It'll be alright." Jughead whispers gently.
"It'll never be alright. I'm all alone my family hates me. Jason was the only person who loved me and now he's gone." Cheryl cries.
"You still have your friends. And in time I'm sure you'll find someone who loves you just as much." Jughead tells her rubbing her shoulder.
"Great friends I have, I'm closer to you and Veronica after only knowing you for 2 weeks." Cheryl says saddened.
"Well at least you have 2 friends then." Jughead tries to joke but Cheryl just continues to cry into his shoulder.
"Come on, try to get some more sleep. You must be exhausted from this emotionally draining event. I'm sure soon things will start to look up again." Jughead tells her, helping her lie down on her bed and pulls up the cover for her.
"Can you stay for a while?" Cheryl pleads.
"Sure. I'm here for you." Jughead agrees and lies down next to her over her covers, pulling her close so she can relax better.
Later that day Betty talks to her dad about what Nana Rose told them and he tells her that Polly is sick because of the Blossoms and that she won't come home until she isn't sick anymore. When she informs Jughead about this they decide that the next step is to talk to Polly.